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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!news.mid.net!sbctri.tri.sbc.com!newspump.wustl.edu!news.ecn.bgu.edu!news.cse.psu.edu!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!new-news.sprintlink.net!news.nkn.net!dfw.nkn.net!usenet From: Syntax <syntax@eramp.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: User PPP connection is s......l......o.......w......! Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 22:21:45 -0500 Organization: National Knowledge Network Lines: 20 Message-ID: <31E47349.41C67EA6@eramp.net> References: <01bb6e37.014cfd20$38673fcb@simonh.addease.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: dialup3.eramp.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b5aGold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) Simon Harris wrote: > > I have successfully connected to my ISP using user PPP but have found it > to be very slow in comparison to using PPP under Windows 95. This seems > odd. In fact I would have expected the reverse to be true. > > Anyone got any ideas? Information I have but I don't really know whats > relevant. > > Regards Simon. Interesting, I found Windows NT to be dog slow compared to FreeBSD. Are you using the ppp scripts or manually? I assume you are not running nisdn ;) If manually type set speed 38400 or add it into the default section in the /etc/ppp/ppp.conf file. Syntax